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Catalogue of Namibian fig wasps

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea)

 

Fig wasps have yet to be reared from a number of fig tree species in Namibia. Consequently the following checklist is far from complete. An idea of the fig wasp species potentially associated with the fig tree species that are present in Namibia may be obtained from the checklist of Afrotropical fig wasps. Fig wasp species recorded from these host trees elsewhere in Africa are also likely to be present in Namibia, although the total fig wasp species assemblage associated with a particular host tree is not always complete throughout the range of the host. 

Order: HYMENOPTERA

Superfamily: CHALCIDOIDEA

Family: AGAONIDAE

Subfamily Agaoninae

  • Genus Alfonsiella Waterston 1920

    • Alfonsiella binghami Wiebes

  • Genus Allotriozoon Grandi 1916

    • Allotriozoon heterandromorphum Grandi

      • Allotriozoon heterandromorphum Grandi 1916

      • Allotriozoon seychellense Masi 1917

      • Blastophaga wanei Risbec 1951

      • Blastophaga dakarensis Risbec 1954

  • Genus Elisabethiella Grandi 1928

    • Elisabethiella platyscapa Wiebes

      • Elisabethiella platyscapa Wiebes 1989

    • Elisabethiella enriquesi (Grandi)

    • Elisabethiella stuckenbergi (Grandi)

      • Blastophaga stuckenbergi Grandi 1955

    • Elisabethiella glumosae Wiebes

  • Genus Platyscapa Motschoulsky 1864

Subfamily Kradibiinae

  • Genus Ceratosolen Mayr 1885 [Synonym: Sycocrypta Coquerel 1855]

    • Ceratosolen arabicus Mayr

      • Ceratosolen arabicus Mayr 1906

      • Ceratosolen myersi Grandi 1955

      • Ceratosolen longicornis Joseph 1959

      • Ceratosolen aelleni Grandi 1964

    • Ceratosolen galili Wiebes

  • Genus Kradibia Saunders 1883

    • Kradibia gestroi afrum (Wiebes)

Subfamily SYCOPHAGINAE

  • Genus Sycophaga Westwood 1840

    • Sycophaga gigas (Mayr)

    • Sycophaga sycomori (Linnaeus)

      • Cynips sycomori Linnaeus 1758

      • Sycophaga crassipes Westwood 1840

Family PTEROMALIDAE

Subfamily OTITESELLINAE

Subfamily SYCORYCTINAE

Tribe APOCRYPTINI

  • Genus Apocrypta Coquerel 1855

    • Apocrypta longitarsus Mayr

      • Apocrypta longitarsus Mayr 1906

      • Apocrypta minima Risbec 1951

      • Apocryptophagus bambeyi Risbec 1951

Family: EURYTOMIDAE 

  • Genus Ficomila Bouček

    • Ficomila curtivena Bouček

      • Ficomila curtivena Bouček 1981

  • Genus Sycophila Walker

    • Sycophila kestraneura (Masi)

    • Sycophila naso Bouček

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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